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Friday, December 26, 1986 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Penguins 3 at Sabres 3

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 66OVR Gilles Meloche Penguins First Star 42 SV · .933 R 43OVR Normand Lacombe Oilers Second Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG R 87OVR John Tucker Sabres Third Star 2A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:31 Craig Simpson (13) PPG Kevin Lavallee (16), Terry Ruskowski (23) PIT 1 – 0 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 0:54 Mike Foligno (10) Mike Ramsey (9), Christian Ruuttu (17) PIT 1 – 1 BUF
  2. 2:16 Dan Quinn (11) Warren Young (7), Dwight Mathiasen (1) PIT 2 – 1 BUF
  3. 3:05 Normand Lacombe (4) John Tucker (24) PIT 2 – 2 BUF
  4. 4:19 Terry Ruskowski (9) Willy Lindstrom (4), Randy Cunneyworth (6) PIT 3 – 2 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 18:10 Dave Andreychuk (9) Normand Lacombe (5), John Tucker (25) PIT 3 – 3 BUF

Overtime

No scoring

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Terry Ruskowski C 1 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.45
Dan Quinn C 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Willy Lindstrom R 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Randy Cunneyworth L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Dwight Mathiasen R 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Craig Simpson L 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
Kevin Lavallee L 0 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.70
Ville Siren D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Randy Hillier D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Warren Young C 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.25
Doug Bodger D 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Dave Hannan C 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.08
John Chabot C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Bob Errey L 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Chris Dahlquist D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Jim Johnson D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Dan Frawley R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.38
Rod Buskas D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gilles Meloche T 45 42 3 .933 65:00 1.95

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Normand Lacombe R 1 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.90
John Tucker R 0 2 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.70
Dave Andreychuk L 1 0 5 0 0 +2 0:00 1.43
Mike Foligno R 1 0 6 0 0 0 0:00 1.20
Christian Ruuttu C 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Mike Ramsey D 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.48
Phil Housley D 0 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.45
Wilf Paiement R 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Doug Smith C 0 0 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.23
Scott Arniel L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Jeff Parker R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Tom Kurvers D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Gaetano Orlando C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Paul Cyr L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Lindy Ruff L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Steve Dykstra L 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.15
Joe Reekie D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Uwe Krupp D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jacques Cloutier T 25 22 3 .880 64:52 -0.05